Preface, 1. Political Participation, Electoral Reform, and Social Difference: A New Politics of Representation?, 2. Lani Guinier: Feminist Jurisprudence and Fair Representation, 3. Feminism and Democracy: Anne Phillips and the Politics of Equality, 4. Iris Marion Young and the Politics of Difference, 5. Representation and the Politics of Democratic Inclusion, 6. Social Class, Political Representation, and Democratic Revival: Resisting Quiescence and Manufactured Interests, 7. Conclusion: A Feminist Politics of Inclusion, Bibliography, Index
Angela D. Ledford is an Associate Professor of Political Science at The College of Saint Rose, where she teaches subjects including political theory, American government, and gender politics.
'Drawing on and extending key feminist insights on difference and diversity, Angela Ledford makes an important intervention that convincingly details how changing our political system to account for gender, race, class and other lines of division can make it simultaneously more democratic and equitable. This is theoretical writing of the first order that could not be more practical. And it is exactly the kind of thinking our politics now so desperately needs.' Sanford F. Schram, Bryn Mawr College, USA 'Angela Ledford's new book has much to offer. Its engagement with feminist theory offers salient new insights. Its focus on the interplay between class and culture also illuminates the plight of marginalized groups with respect to their political representation (or lack of it). Most importantly, however, Professor Ledford provides positive suggestions for electoral reform - that are well worth thinking about.' Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University, USA
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